Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 19, 1878
Died
May 09, 1968
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Credits
119 titles
Finlay Currie
Biography
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator; He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore. Later in life he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He had been a long time collector of the works of Robert Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Vendetta for The Saint
Don Pasquale
Les Misérables
The Prisoner
General
Alice in Wonderland
Dodo
Brigadoon
Mr. Lundie
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Doll Maker
Knock on Any Door
Old Man
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Emcee
Gideon's Way
General Sir Hector McGregor
Who Was Maddox?
Alex Campbell
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Senator
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Grandpa Stirling
West 11
Gash
Billy Liar
Duxbury
Cleopatra
Titus (uncredited)
Murder at the Gallop
Old Enderby
The Cracksman
Feathers
The Amorous Prawn
Lochaye
The Saint
Don Pasquale
Man of the World
Donald
The Inspector
De Kool
Go to Blazes
Judge
Joseph and His Brethren
Jacob
Clue of the Silver Key
Harvey Lane
Francis of Assisi
The Pope
Hand in Hand
Mr. Pritchard
Five Golden Hours
Father Superior
Danger Man
'Jock'
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Captain Sellers
The Angel Wore Red
Bishop
Kidnapped
Cluny MacPherson
Ben-Hur
Balthasar
Solomon and Sheba
David
Corridors of Blood
Supt. Charles Matheson
Tempest
Count Grinov
Rockets Galore
Narrator (uncredited)
6.5 Special
Himself
The Naked Earth
Father Verity
Dangerous Exile
Mr. Patient
Campbell's Kingdom
Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Saint Joan
Archbishop of Rheims
The Little Hut
The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Seven Waves Away
Mr. Wheaton
Zarak
The Mullah
Around the World in 80 Days
Whist Partner
Armchair Theatre
Professor Syme
The Count of Monte Cristo
Footsteps in the Fog
Inspector Peters
King's Rhapsody
King Paul
Captain Lightfoot
Callahan